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I keep an aloe vera plant in my kitchen, for burns. They are very easy to grow and you just break off a little piece and put it on a burn, no blister, no scar.

(Might want to remember this when you're at that Christmas buffet) The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Cropwell Bishop Creamery Finest Blue Stilton Cheese described below because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. All...

Tonight's full Moon is the biggest of the year, as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser Moons earlier in 2008. An astronomer would say this is a "perigee Moon" because it occurs at perigee, the side of the Moon's elliptical...

or an idea or something. He's going to be speechifying tonight on CBC TV, 7pm, Eastern time. It will also be broadcast on CBC Radio One. Wonder if he'll actually have "something" to say. Or if he's just gonna whine.

TO commemorate the arrival of the first pilgrims to America’s shores, a June date would be far more appropriate, accompanied perhaps by coq au vin and a nice Bordeaux. After all, the first European arrivals seeking religious freedom in the “New World” were French. And they beat their English...

Today's breakfast. I put some smoked sausage and chopped onion in olive oil on the wood stove and let it slow cook for an hour. Then I tossed in some leftover spaghetti noodles (plain), parmesan and ground pepper. Yum. Ah, the beauty of living alone. Eat what you want, when you want. :smile:

OTTAWA - Today the Liberal campaign launched Scandalpedia, an online encyclopedia to assist Canadians in keeping track of all the facts surrounding the growing number of ethical scandals engulfing the Conservatives. In just two and half years, we have seen a dizzying array of scandals...

Have you been to the Crooked Forest? This sounds like a very interesting place...

I'm sure everyone has heard about this by now, but just in case... Health officials confirmed Wednesday that one person has died and at least 16 others got sick from listeriosis. As of Wednesday, some 23 products, including a variety of turkey, smoked meat and roast beef products, were subject...

This is tooo bizarre. Can you imagine being on the bus? Nightmares forever. BRANDON, MAN. — A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to...

The HMS Ontario, a British warship built in 1780, has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. In the early evening hours of October 31, 1780, the British sloop of war HMS Ontario sank with over 120 men, women, children and prisoners on board during a sudden and...

By Sean Coughlan BBC News Magazine Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh? Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu." *** No, it's a word describing an African...

Questionnaire 1. Ur Age: 59 2. Ur Gender: female 3. Ur Job: retired 4. Ur nationality: world 5. Ur character (more than one choice) yes, I am. Oh, I see.. □outgoing- not very □good at communicating- I've always thought so □easy to be get excited- not at all □easy to have a...

You Are My Sunshine. Can't stop laughing. :lol:

Direct Energy? It's this "deal" where you sign up to lock in your gas and/or hydro rate for the next 5 years. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks. :cheers:

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. 01/06/08 "At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the U.S. criminal...

IRAQ: Killer of U.S. Soldiers Becomes a Hero By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Jan 7 (IPS) - The recent killing of two U.S. soldiers by their Iraqi colleague has raised disturbing questions about U.S. military relations with the Iraqis they work with. On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier...

right now. CBC Radio 1. You know, if ya feel like it. Good music.

The first vote is happening. Iowa is always first. Corn farmers. Last I heard, Obama was winning but it's getting really hard now to find any counts. We'll soon see how this will all play out.

[Source: http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Getting_Past_Oh.html ] "Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate Most Americans have long ago now reached two conclusions about their government. First, that George W. Bush is an incompetent president with...